Boston - Stuczynski 4.82 AR, Hooker 6.06 #2 vaulter all-time

[rainbowgirl28]

This was posted recently on the Track and Field News message board, I added in Hooker:

6.15i Bubka 93
6.14 B 94
6.14i B 93
6.13 B 92
6.13i B 92
6.12 B 92
6.12i B 91
6.11 B 92
6.11i B 91
6.10 B 91
6.10i B 91
6.09 B 91
6.08 B 91
6.08i B 91
6.07 B 91
6.06 B 88
6.06 Hooker 09
6.05 B 88
6.05 B 93
6.05 B 94
6.05 B 97
6.05 Tarasov 99
6.05 Markov 01
6.05i B 90
6.05i B 93
6.05i B 93

[rainbowgirl28]

Flash Results, Inc.
Reebok Boston Indoor Games - 2/7/2009
Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center
Boston, MA

Event 14 Men Pole Vault Reebok
==========================================================================
Name Year Team Finals
==========================================================================
Finals
1 Steven Hooker AUS 6.06m 19-10.50
5.37 5.52 5.62 5.72 5.87 6.06 6.16
P P O P O XXO XXX
2 Derek Miles USA 5.72m 18-09.25
5.37 5.52 5.62 5.72 5.87
P O P O XXX
3 Darren Niedermeyer USA 5.52m 18-01.25
5.37 5.52 5.62 5.72
XO O P XXX
4 Giovanni Lannaro MEX 5.37m 17-07.25
5.37 5.52
O XXX
5 Paul Burgess AUS 5.37m 17-07.25
5.37 5.52
XO XXX
-- Tim Mack USA NH
5.37 5.52
P XXX

[smokinvaulter1]

You guys must realize this is in season for hooker right now so he has his game on. He came over here ready to do this is not early season for him like it is for most of the other guys. but still freaken awesome performance.

[BethelPV]

It might be in season for him, but he still moved to #2 vaulter all time.... if thats not worthy praising than what is? And also I guarantee he took a little bit of time off after the Olympics and the really long season last year...

[smokinvaulter1]

To me any jump over 5.80 is worth praise. I don't think he took to much time off though. He's got his A game on jumping 6m two weeks in a row plus he's had a couple meets in Perth already.

[BethelPV]

Yeah for sure! It is crazy though cuz I had heard somewhere that he had only taken up 1 jump from a full run before coming to Millrose which is insane!! To not have jumped from a full run and PR 2 weeks in a row is sick!! He looks awesome and im hoping he breaks a long standing WR sometime soon! Wouldn't it be awesome if he did it in Donetsk?

[achtungpv]

Anybody that thinks Hooker is peaking for the Down Under season is delusional. Sure it's in-season for national class athletes there but be assured the world class talent is not peaking for it. He didn't even vault for 4 weeks prior to Millrose and prior to that it was short run vaulting.

[rainbowgirl28]

To me any jump over 5.80 is worth praise. I don't think he took to much time off though. He's got his A game on jumping 6m two weeks in a row plus he's had a couple meets in Perth already.

Are you sure he competed in Perth before Millrose? I never saw any results or heard anything about it.

[rainbowgirl28]

Anybody that thinks Hooker is peaking for the Down Under season is delusional. Sure it's in-season for national class athletes there but be assured the world class talent is not peaking for it. He didn't even vault for 4 weeks prior to Millrose and prior to that it was short run vaulting.

They also already guaranteed him a spot on their world championship team, so he has nothing to prove down under.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=745044

Hooker soars to second-highest of all-time
By Jane Aubrey, WWOS
13:00 AEST Sun Feb 8 2009

Steve Hooker was unsuccessful in his bid to set a new pole vault world record but he did break the Australian mark at the Boston Indoor Games.

The Beijing Olympic champion was attempting to break Sergey Bubka's world indoor record of 6.15m which has stood since 1993 but will have to be content with reaching the second highest indoor mark of all-time.

Just one week after reaching a new personal best height of 6.01m in New York, his first competition since Beijing, Hooker launched himself higher than ever before in Boston reaching 6.06m – 1cm better than the previous national mark set by Dimitri Markov when he won the world title in Edmonton in 2001.

Hooker was the only competitor in the seven-man field to vault higher than 6m, opting into the competition at 5.62m. The West Australian then cleared 5.87m before failing at his first two attempts of 6.06m. American Derek Miles was next best with a height of 5.72m.

The other Australian in the field, Paul Burgess silver medallist at the 1998 Commonwealth Games finished in fifth position with a best clearance of 5.37m.

Boston Indoor Games organizers, keen to see a repeat of Hooker's New York form moved the runway and box used last week at Madison Square Gardens in the hope that he would better Bubka's mark.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUI ... 7_18_35_56

Stuczynski one-ups AR in vault

Competing at the facility where she won her first national title as an unknown in 2005, the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center, Jenn Stuczynski further cemented her utter domination of the women's vault in the United States. Early Saturday night in the Nutrilite women's pole vault, the six-time combined U.S. indoor and outdoor champion cleared 4.82m/15-9.75 on her first attempt to break Stacy Dragila's American record of 4.81m/15-9.25 from 2004. It also earned Stuczynski a $25,000 bonus from meet organizers and is a 2009 world leader, moving her to the #3 woman on the all-time list indoors. In addition to the big check, she now owns the national indoor and outdoor records, with her 2008 Olympic Trials-winning height of 4.92m/16-01.75. Dragila placed second Saturday night with a clearance of 4.42m/14-6.

Hooker, who last week at the 102nd Millrose Games broke the meet record and scared the world record, did more of the same in Boston. The Olympic gold medalist won the competition over Derek Miles with a clearance at 5.87m/19-3 as Miles cleared 5.72m/18-9.25. Hooker then raised the bar to 6.06m/19-10.5. He cleared on his third and final attempt at the height to become the #2 vaulter of all time, behind only Sergey Bubka. Next up was 6.16m/20-2.15, to try to break Bubka's WR by a centimeter. A run-through and two solid jumps - and misses - closed out his night.

[Thats.What.She.Said]

Hooker runs through his first attempt at 6.16

Yes, Vaultngus is text messaging me updates. I am just glad I am visiting my folks in Seattle, my cell phone doesn't work where I live in the boonies.

ohh you're who he was texting, cause for someone who gets mad at the rest of us for texting he sure did it a lot.

anyways, omg that was amazing being there.